UPS Borrows Less To Buy Dutch Rival

Associated Press

Updated: 2 years ago.

UPS says it will now buy back up to $5 billion in shares, including $1.5 billion each this year and next year. In September it had said it would buy back at least $8 billion in shares through 2014. UPS will use the extra cash to buy Dutch rival TNT Express. (Photo Courtesy of zyphbear via Flickr.)

UPS says it will spend less money on share buybacks and instead use more cash to buy Dutch rival TNT Express.

The new plan from UPS will shrink the amount it needs to borrow to buy TNT by $2 billion. UPS now says it will spend $5 billion in cash on the $6.8 billion deal that will make it the biggest shipper in Europe. It's the biggest acquisition UPS has ever made.